Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03223a88c70d7423…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 19:38:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 171a1cfc22c0ee2ac66f0758a2b4a5e2 SHA-1: 8a1400cd7929806e26c3e57e05db81d93d837b73 SHA-256: 03223a88c70d7423eb0259f36f72abd07d3a58405fe2038fcb71201fb1bbdec1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings suggests a deliberate attempt to distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://henskeschildersbedrijf.nl/upload/benisakogizasofamiva.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.es/upload/ragusirapoxelipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/2362724644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372faf288b7---84299131246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yptea.com/data/fckeditor/files/lomidifegutada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613613ce9f267---kikafore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a504559ac---51968908982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/48684607172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiin-torng.com/uploadfiles/20210906204404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalweek.eu/userfiles/files/zubukizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilahomedesign.com/userfiles/files/waduzegivexivuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/pezuzowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almavilag.hu/files/files/98072430281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/dodufeziworofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/94321712334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spandoekland.nl/userfiles/file/janubigujalusoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mapect.com/upload/fckeditor/file/jitogixojinedunabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/703105705612f0adc333dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///lupawalobotosoguxosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/dumutenunemipiwavubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcntanduc.vn/img_duhoc/files/pabenuguzedovaruji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demircanticaret.com/userfiles/file/40069407791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1630572693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdravi-kromeriz.cz/files/file/8003383829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/wejozufemevulejubodelemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=pc+to+phone+screen+mirroringPDF link annotation
    • http://louisiana-arts.org.s150269.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/46624493438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D8 10612 bytes
SHA-256: ce65e2cc6d3f454f59eeddcc546110b72848eb5742b98cff2e5d9a52bfaae1ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000eced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECED 17852 bytes
SHA-256: 1060c44df1c2797c15ad88eff6b79a6b435846d76a20549b0395cd7bb970e45d
font_02_sfnt_off00011b2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1